Help! Screaming hen

She's a new layer? If she's a young pullet she should quiet down some it seems that I have one or 2 pullets who act like they laid a "watermelon" for sometimes nothing. It seems to quiet down in a couple of weeks though you will have hens that like to sing just to help another one lay...chickens make noise....

 

We were wondering about that, too. We got 6 pullets and were fairly certain they were all female- until the noisy mornings started! They are so noisy I was afraid they were roosters and the neighbors would have a fit. That was a few weeks ago, and they are still noisy- but no complaints yet. I figure it must hurt to pass an egg?

 

I have 1 hen out of a 100 that does the very same thing a couple times a week, she never out grew it and she is 3 now,

I swear she is just trying to get a hen to leave the nest she wants, she sits there bawk-bawking waiting for particular a nest, next thing ya know she comes flying out like something is after her, gets everyone upset and sure enough she goes back in all calm like nothing happened while the others are still upset and takes the nest she had been waiting for.

I have one hen that cackles every time another hen lays an egg untill she lays her own.

You can try to wait it out or rehome her if it is too much to bare.

Good luck with her, she's just a loud mouth

 

I'm always conscious of my neighbours.
But every now and then the girls all congratulate each other when they each lay eggs - the noise is atrocious!!
You might have to lock her up in the coop and just let her out for a few hours at the end of the day?
Hope she settles down for you.

 

My girls will do this sometimes as well...most of my neighbors think it's adorable <--- luckily

 

Why are all the "free to a good home" so far away? *sigh*

 

if you have a decent enough size of a coop just lock her up with food and water when she starts making the noise and let her out when she stops, the crows make more noise then my chickens.